'Booking' definitions:

Definition of 'booking'

(from WordNet)
noun
Employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; "the play had bookings throughout the summer" [syn: engagement, booking]
noun
The act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group); "wondered who had made the booking" [syn: booking, reservation]

Definition of 'Booking'

From: GCIDE
  • Book \Book\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Booked (b[oo^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Booking.]
  • 1. To enter, write, or register in a book or list. [1913 Webster]
  • Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; to reserve[2]; also, to make an arrangement for a reservation; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater; to book a reservation at a restaurant. [1913 Webster +PJC]
  • 3. To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
  • Here I am booked for three days more in Paris. --Charles Reade. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. to make an official record of a charge against (a suspect in a crime); -- performed by police. [PJC]

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